Norman the Necromancer Unblocked

Norman the Necromancer stars a quiet, bookish spellcaster who would like to be left alone with his graveyard. The local villagers have other plans, and they keep arriving with pitchforks, bows and shiny armor. Your answer is a stream of green spells lobbed in high arcs, and when the villagers fall, you bring them back as skeletons to fight for you. Dan Prince squeezed this into the 13-kilobyte limit of js13k 2022, complete with synthesized organ music. It plays unblocked here with a mouse and keyboard.

Holding the Graveyard Wall

Norman holds position at the wall’s left end. Villagers march in from the right, and any who get to him deal damage equal to their remaining health. His life is shown as five orbs at the start.

Point the mouse and click to cast. Each bolt travels in an arc and falls under gravity, so aim higher for far-off targets. You have three casts stored at once, shown as small orbs below your health, and one refills each second.

Most enemies leave a body behind. Once the Resurrect meter at the bottom shows Space, hit that key and every body on the field gets up together. The new skeletons walk right and brawl with the first enemy in their way. The ability then takes ten seconds to come back.

Souls and the Shop

Kills drop souls. Next to your soul count is a percentage, your streak bonus: each cast that connects raises your soul income by a tenth, capping at twice the normal amount, and a cast that misses entirely resets it.

Between levels, the shop offers healing, an extra health orb, an extra cast slot and rituals that rewrite how your spells behave. Every visit lists a pair of common rituals plus a single rare one, and costs rise level by level.

Norman the Necromancer controls

To do this	Keyboard	Mouse
Aim	—	Move the mouse
Cast, which also starts the game	—	Click
Raise all corpses as skeletons	Space, once the Resurrect bar is ready	—
Pause and unpause	P	—
Move through the shop list	Up and Down arrows	—
Buy the highlighted item or choose Continue	Enter	—

Enemies Worth Knowing

Enemy	What to do
Monks	Kill them first. They heal every enemy on the field.
Shell knights	Wait. They are immune while tucked in their shells.
Royal guards	Hold fire while their shield is up, or it reflects a golden orb back at Norman.
Archers	Do not chase them with long single shots that break your streak.

Habits That Win Runs

Aim for crowds. Hitting the middle of a group keeps your streak bonus climbing.

Let bodies pile up. Resurrection raises everyone at once, so waiting for several corpses turns one skeleton into a small army.

Buy the basics early. A Recharge or Renew in the first shops often does more than an expensive ritual.

Guard every orb. With no saves between runs, a single lost orb on level 3 can decide the whole attempt.

A Small Game With a Lot of Character

The mix of artillery aiming, army building and shop choices gives Norman far more depth than its size suggests, and the grumpy-wizard humor holds it together. For another game where survival builds into upgrades, try Emoji Horde, or defend a different kind of fortress in Canvas Tower Defense.